Word: connections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was a pol's callus on his palm and advice to young flesh-pressers on his lips: "Hit in close, deep, where they can feel it. Connect first, before they do. That's the way to make them feel the power." To a heckling crowd he showed one finger. The tough-guy style was not inconsistent with the physical man, built like a truck battery with a constant charge of direct current. Those around him learned to keep their distance. Persico describes relationships clearly signaling that one did not work for Rockefeller but served him. There were...
...irrational" hope is that 30 years from now one of these souls sitting on a committee which controls an investment bank's loan policy may connect "racism" (having correctly identified the term on his Soc. Stud. generals) with loaning money to South Africa and veto such a policy. He will have changed things And he will have done so by putting on a pin striped suit and walking around Harvard Yard or spilling his guts on the Crimson's editorial page...
...from the city. Billy is a precocious adept at the fine art of "cruising chicks." At first he is insolent, recalcitrant obnoxious--a caricature of the stereotype of the urban brat Predictably. Ethel, Norman and nature work miracles on the lot in four lightening week's. The rest is connect-the-dots. By the end of On Golden Pondso many things have fixed themselves up that one has the feeling that Skylab has fallen out of the heavens and, after disintegrating, magically reassembled itself on earth Nice...
...commission approved Halprin's plan for a zigzagging 14-ft. granite wall that would connect a series of fountains, plantings, sculptures and quotes from F.D.R.'s speeches...
...successfully contained the Crimson with a combination of zone defenses for the first 20 minutes, but the Wildcats seemed to take a few hesitant steps back toward the basket once Harvard began to connect from the outside...